Please help ID this Johnny Cash record!

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Heard it at a record store several years ago, I believe it was given a fairly recent vinyl reissue (don't know the label though). It's 50s or 60s and he's fucked up, says all kinds of hilarious stuff and at one point gets a joint out of his guitar case. I believe it was taped for a TV show. Anyway, it's really good, and I've had no luck so far. Anyone help?

― baron of love, Wednesday, 4 May 2005 05:12 (twenty years ago)

I've been into Johnny lately, esp. the crazy novelty shit like "Chicken in Black" and "Look at Them Beans," but I can't ID this. I e-mailed my buddy here in Nashville, he's pretty expert on Johnny. Maybe he can tell me, this sounds like something I need to know too.

Baron of Love, eh? Get in here before this stuff coagulates and all? Sounds like you might know your Ross Johnson, do you know his single from about ten years ago, "Nudist Camp"? Pretty damned funny.

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

Sounds like Live at San Quintin, maybe?

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 4 May 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

On 'San Quentin' he says something like "You know that little black bag where I got all my pills . . . "

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

the crazy novelty shit
see also: "Straight A's in Love" "One Piece at a Time"

neither of which are all that crazy, but still.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 4 May 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

Not that this will help, as I haven't heard them, but Sundazed released a couple of vinyl LPs based on 1950s TV tapings a few years ago. Live at Town Hall Party 1958, and 1959. No sound samples, though.

― Vic Funk, Wednesday, 4 May 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

great: "From Sea to Shining Sea," with "The Whirl and the Suck" and "The Frozen Four Hundred Pound Fair to Middlin' Cotton Picker." I was always a bit ambivalent about Cash, but once I heard "Chicken in Black," his greatest song I think, I got the message real quick.

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

Yeah this sounds like 'San Quentin' (QUITE A GOOD RECORD).

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 5 May 2005 01:34 (twenty years ago)

"Sundazed released a couple of vinyl LPs based on 1950s TV tapings a few years ago. Live at Town Hall Party 1958, and 1959. No sound samples, though."

I'm pretty sure it was one of these! Thanks!

― baron of love, Friday, 6 May 2005 11:43 (twenty years ago)

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